U.S. Episcopal Bishops Hear Preliminary Report from Inter-Anglican Commission
Monday, Mar. 20, 2006

A special commission created by the Episcopal Church to gauge the U.S. denomination’s relationship to the global Anglican Communion gave a preliminary overview of its work during the House of Bishops meeting in Hendersonville, N.C., on Saturday.

The Special Commission was created in November 2005 following an international backlash against the U.S. church’s unilateral decision to ordain an openly homosexual man as bishop of New Hampshire. Its official charge is to assist the church in “considering how to maintain the highest degree of communion within the Anglican Communion given the different perspectives held with regard to the place of homosexual persons in the life of the church.”

At the bishops’ meeting, Commission members provided a briefing of the work-to-date, but did not give any draft resolutions for consideration. The rest